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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

2016 election turned out to be about the powerful versus the powerless, and the powerless were never going to win. A nominee was never going to persuade the Establishment and its media to give up their power-Rush Limbaugh, Aug. 15, 2016

"I can't tell you the times, there's too many to count...where people
have come up to me, "We gotta go after the media. When are we gonna go
after the media? The media's killing us. The media is the story, we
gotta go after the media."... Trump was in Fairfield, Connecticut....When he was there, he told them
in the rally, he said to heck with running against Crooked Hillary.
We're not running against Crooked Hillary. We're running against a
crooked media....

The New York Times has a story
about 20 anonymous Trump insiders who say that he can't be controlled,
that he's depressed, that he's down in the dumps, that he's sullen. He's
inconsolable that none of this is working out the way he thought it
would work out.

There are people ostensibly--ostensibly, it's in New
York Times--close to the Trump campaign who say that Trump really
thought he'd been able to win over the media with his charm and with his
public appearances and with the charismatic nature of his personality
and so forth, much as he did during the primaries....

What did this election really
turn out to be about? It turns out to be trying to take away all of the
reins of power and all of the perks and everything associated with being
a member of the establishment.Did anybody think that the establishment
-- be they Republican, Democrat, Martian, communist, whatever -- were
just gonna sit around and leave that up to the democratic process? (chuckles) They are not.

They're not just gonna sit there and wait 'til November whatever
the election date isand then throw their fortunes to the great
unwashed on Election Day.So they've taken all these -- and the media is
part of the establishment, and there are many Republicans in it.

You could look at it as whatever it is, but it is the powerful
versus the powerless, and the powerless were never gonna win this.(interruption)...The powerless were never gonna
win this in a contest where the nominee tries to persuade the powerful
to give it up. "But, Rush, what about the emails? "What about...?" The
emails, the shmemails! Folks, there's nothing that's gonna happen with
the emails. I don't care what's found in them. We should know that by
now....

Besides, the Republicans are not serious about investigating any of this
stuff on Capitol Hill, and so absent that, the media isn't gonna do it.
I'm sorry. I love these people. I love Tom Fitton and all the people at
Judicial Watch, but they can't do this by themselves. They simply
cannot call attention to Hillary's emails. They can request them. They
can do all this, and they can provide the results, but they're not gonna
go anywhere because there's no official...The courts are not gonna
pursue it.The DOJ has made it clear they're not gonna pursue anything....

We are not going to "illegal" the Clintons out of office. Scandal is
not ever going to harm them. There is no evidence that it ever has....There are all kinds of
Clinton scandals that people believe, and it doesn't matter to 'em....Mrs. Clinton's vulnerable in a lot of other ways. It just doesn't have
to be scandal. She's vulnerable as she can be on policy, but for some
reason, the decision has been made to go after the media today....

"“Now you’re seeing what happens when you go after the media. It
doesn’t work. But no matter how unbalanced, no matter how biased, no
matter how unfair, no matter how a bunch of cheaters they are, no matter
what a bunch of slavish pro-Democrat creeps they are, it never works
going after them if you are the candidate. It makes you look small.
Besides, despite what many people think, the media isn’t on the ballot.”

Trump needs to find ways to bypass the media and their lies.

I don’t think calling out the media on their lies is bad but the
problem is you end up bogged down debating the media and not your
opponent.

Get the truth out. Expose the media lies. Be on message about Clinton. That's all Trump can do.

"If Trump limits his attacks to the Hildabeast and
ignores the media, they will eat him alive.

Unrelentingly, everyday they
will be lampooning and demeaning him, dismissing as crazy his attacks
on the Hildabeast. The Never Trump crowd will join in. They will
completely take over the public narrative. The media is enemy number one
and if you do not attack them relentlessly, they will destroy you.
Trump's media attacks also give him free public exposure like he got
daily during the primaries. My record is that he won most if not all of
those attacks and irritated the hell out of the media in the process.
The result, very few believe anything the media says anymore. Their
credibility is below the water line.